About Kathy Carpenter
My father started his first business in 1960. I was nine years old at the time. By the time I was twelve he had diversified, as he always called it, into three more. The list goes on and on. So I can truly say I have been in business all my life. There has never been a time that one of the businesses didn't need an extra person to do some job for a day or for the entire summer. Mother finally trained me to help her keep books. She never called herself an accountant. A few of the businesses he would have a partner and those were the ones that never made the cut. If he wasn't directly involved in the day to day operation the bank account never seemed to have much money in it. Those companies he closed usually with a loss of money and of a partner that was a friend. I married and left in 1970. My brother had a motorcycle accident in 1972 that left him unable to be the one to step up and fill the shoes of the CEO. My sister joined the conglomerate full time in 1977. By this time he was down to just three corporations and things were getting a little more manageable. In 1980 I divorced and moved to Montgomery, Al and secured a position with the State of Alabama in the State Arts & Humanities Agency. This was something I was very interested in and I enjoyed the work very much. June 30,1981, President Reagan's budget cut backs closed down the grant that paid for my position. So I finally agreed to come back home and take mother's place and let her retire at the early age of 52. I became the accountant for all the corporations and worked in the ServStar Hardware and learned how to sell Butler Metal buildings. The other corporation was a land development corporation, a subdivision, that was completed in 1976. It turned out that I liked the construction company and had a, unknown talent for estimating jobs and supervising the work during the construction process. We were Butler Builders for over 25 years. In 1996 I built my last building. It is the present business I am responsible for. Westend Oil,LLC. A BP Convenience Store with a full cafe on one end. We have been open thirteen years. Just so you don't have to wonder what happened to my sister, she is still responsible for the Hardware. It is so much better to be down to just one business at a time. I don't know if this would be called a bio in Stanford's guidelines,but I do get carried away sometimes and when you get just the facts as the man said it is very unpersonable. You may know more about me than you wish to, in that case maybe you stopped reading after the first paragraph.Location of Member
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PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION
Title : Secretary, Treasurer
Marketing Area : Regional
Type Of Business : Convenience Store, Cafe, Gas Station
Business Website : www.Carpentersmegamall.com
Company Name : Westend Oil, LLC
Expertise : Human Resource, Operations, Purchasing and Retail
Years Of Experience In Industry : Thirteen Years
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Gender : Female
Place of Birth : Dothan, Al
Date of Birth: 11/7/1951
Education Degrees : Studied Accounting at Troy State University
Favorite Place to Vacation : North Georgia Mountains
Hobbies/Sports : Gardening, Maintenance of 5 Ecommerce Sites
PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY
Products And/Or Services : B.P. Fuels, Convenience store, Retail, Cafe and Gas Station
Affiliations Awards : Petroleum & Convenience Marketers Association
More About me : My father started his first business in 1960. I was nine years old at the time. By the time I was twelve he had diversified, as he always called it, into three more. The list goes on and on. So I can truly say I have been in business all my life. There has never been a time that one of the businesses didn't need an extra person to do some job for a day or for the entire summer. Mother finally trained me to help her keep books. She never called herself an accountant. A few of the businesses he would have a partner and those were the ones that never made the cut. If he wasn't directly involved in the day to day operation the bank account never seemed to have much money in it. Those companies he closed usually with a loss of money and of a partner that was a friend. I married and left in 1970. My brother had a motorcycle accident in 1972 that left him unable to be the one to step up and fill the shoes of the CEO. My sister joined the conglomerate full time in 1977. By this time he was down to just three corporations and things were getting a little more manageable. In 1980 I divorced and moved to Montgomery, Al and secured a position with the State of Alabama in the State Arts & Humanities Agency. This was something I was very interested in and I enjoyed the work very much. June 30,1981, President Reagan's budget cut backs closed down the grant that paid for my position. So I finally agreed to come back home and take mother's place and let her retire at the early age of 52. I became the accountant for all the corporations and worked in the ServStar Hardware and learned how to sell Butler Metal buildings. The other corporation was a land development corporation, a subdivision, that was completed in 1976. It turned out that I liked the construction company and had a, unknown talent for estimating jobs and supervising the work during the construction process. We were Butler Builders for over 25 years. In 1996 I built my last building. It is the present business I am responsible for. Westend Oil,LLC. A BP Convenience Store with a full cafe on one end. We have been open thirteen years. Just so you don't have to wonder what happened to my sister, she is still responsible for the Hardware. It is so much better to be down to just one business at a time. I don't know if this would be called a bio in Stanford's guidelines,but I do get carried away sometimes and when you get just the facts as the man said it is very unpersonable. You may know more about me than you wish to, in that case maybe you stopped reading after the first paragraph.
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